Friday, December 3, 2010

Vocabulary ch 11 & 12


155 Inkling – a slight suggestion or indication; hint; intimation

156 Benvenuto –(Italian) welcome

158 Polyethylene – a plastic polymer of ethylene used chiefly for containers, electrical insulation, and packaging.

160 Waxwings – any of several songbirds of the family Bombycillidae, having a showy crest and certain feathers
tipped with a red, waxy material, as Bombycilla garrulus (Bohemian waxwing),  of the Northern Hemisphere
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163 DDT – a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 14 H 9 Cl 5 , usually derived from chloral by reaction
with chlorobenzene in the presence of fuming sulfuric acid: used as an insecticide and as a scabicide and pediculicide: agricultural use prohibited in the U.S. since 1973. 

165 Martins – any of several swallows having a deeply forked tail and long, pointed wings. 

167 Atrazine – a white crystalline compound, C 8 H 14 N 5 Cl, used as an herbicide to control weeds, esp. in corn crops. 

169 Paradigm – a set of forms all of which contain a particular element, esp. the set of all inflected forms based on a single stem or theme. 

180 Perennial – perpetual; everlasting; continuing; recurrent

181 Docility – easily managed or handled; tractable

-Calvin Nania

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